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OFA BROOKLYN, NEW YORK;

IMPROVEMENT HOOP SKIRTS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, UNNEVILLE VINCENT, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hoop Skirts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, yreference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specicatio'n, in which is shown- Figure 1, elevation of front portion of the skirt with my improvement applied thereto.

Figure12, perspective view of a hoop, the wire compressing the same crossing itself` `once in its passage around the skirt.

Figure 3, similar `view of a hoop crossing itself twice in its passage around the skirt. The hoop skirts now in common use have tvvo principal defects; first, their liability to creep up or short'en,` caused by the turning ofthe vivires at the pockets which wind the tape around them, and consequently shortens the skirtp second; their liability when pressure is applied from behind, as in sitting down, to rise up in front. Both of the above-mentioned defects are obviated by my improvement, which consists in so arranging the hoopsA constituting the skirt, that each hoop crosses or intersects itself once or more in its passage around the skirts, whereby and by -reason of said crossing ofthe hoops, their turning over is rendered impossible; and as each hoop acts on every other, any pressure applied on the side of the skirt where the hoops cross or intersect, as in sitting do'wn, exertsa downward movement on the part of the skirt directly opposite.

To enable others skilled in the art. to make and use myimprovement, I will proceed to describe its con. i

struction and operation. i i

Instead of causing the wires or hoops t'o run parallel, as in skirts in general use, I so arrangethem that each hoop cdrossesor intersects itself once in front, as shown in iig. 2, and is vfastened to the tape in the usual way; or,when required, I cause the hoop to cross or intersect itself twice both in front and back of the skirt, as shown in iig. 3, Afastening the ends of the Wireato the hoop beneath.

What I claim as 'my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangingpf the wires or hoops -in such a manner that each hoop crosses or intersects itself once or more in its passage round the skirt, substantially and for the purposes herein set forth.`

y HUNNEVHJLE VINCENT. Witnesses Asa J onNsoN, HENRY H. VINCENT. 

